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13-letter words containing p, i, d, g

  • highland park — a city in NE Illinois, on Lake Michigan.
  • ideographical — Alternative form of ideographic.
  • in good shape — person: fit, healthy
  • interpleading — to litigate with each other in order to determine which of two parties is the rightful claimant against a third party.
  • junggar pendi — an arid region of W China, in N Xinjiang between the Altai Mountains and the Tian Shan
  • landing party — a component of a ship's company detached for special duty ashore.
  • landing speed — the minimum air speed at which an aircraft lands safely
  • landing strip — airstrip.
  • launching pad — the platform on which a missile or launch vehicle undergoes final prelaunch checkout and countdown and from which it is launched from the surface of the earth.
  • molding plane — a plane having a blade or a number of blades profiled to form moldings.
  • name-dropping — the introduction into one's conversation, letters, etc., of the names of famous or important people as alleged friends or associates in order to impress others.
  • nondiapausing — lacking a diapause
  • oligopeptides — Plural form of oligopeptide.
  • optical wedge — a wedge-shaped filter whose transmittance decreases from one end to the other: used as an exposure control device in sensitometry.
  • overpedalling — the overuse of the piano's pedals
  • paddling pool — A paddling pool is a shallow artificial pool for children to paddle in.
  • pantie girdle — a girdle with a crotch.
  • paradigm plus — A configurable object-oriented CASE tool from Proto Soft.
  • parasite drag — the component of drag caused by skin friction and the shape of the surfaces not contributing to lift.
  • parotid gland — Also called parotid gland. a salivary gland situated at the base of each ear.
  • partridge pea — a North American plant, Cassia fasciculata, of the legume family, having yellow flowers and feathery compound leaves that fold shut when touched.
  • pearl molding — a molding having the form of a row of pearls.
  • pease pudding — a pudding of strained split peas mixed with egg.
  • pecking order — Animal Behavior. a dominance hierarchy, seen especially in domestic poultry, that is maintained by one bird pecking another of lower status.
  • pedagogically — of or relating to a pedagogue or pedagogy.
  • pelvic girdle — (in vertebrates) a bony or cartilaginous arch supporting the hind limbs or analogous parts.
  • peptidoglycan — a polymer, consisting of polysaccharide and peptide chains, responsible for the structure of the cell wall of bacteria
  • perching bird — any member of the avian order Passeriformes.
  • perigean tide — an ocean tide that occurs in the spring, when the moon is at its perigee.
  • phase diagram — a graph, usually using temperature, pressure, and composition as coordinates, indicating the regions of stability of the various phases of a system.
  • phong shading — (graphics)   A model of how light is reflected from surfaces used extensively in three dimensional graphics to generate visually realistic images.
  • phrygian mode — an authentic church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from E to E.
  • pidginization — to develop (a language) into a pidgin.
  • pigheadedness — stupidly obstinate; stubborn: pigheaded resistance.
  • piked dogfish — the spiny dogfish.
  • pile dwelling — a house raised on long columns of timber over the surface of the soil or a body of water
  • piper gurnard — a marine fish, Trigla lyra, of the family Triglidae
  • plague-ridden — afflicted by the plague or a plague
  • plain dealing — direct and honest conduct in one's relations and transactions with others.
  • plant kingdom — the plants of the world collectively.
  • playing cards — cards used in playing various games, arranged in decks of four suits (spades, hearts, diamonds, and clubs): a standard deck has 52 cards
  • playing field — an expanse of level ground, as in a park or stadium, where athletic events are held.
  • point de gaze — a needlepoint lace in which delicate floral designs are sewn onto a net ground.
  • post-midnight — the middle of the night; twelve o'clock at night.
  • power loading — the act of a person or thing that loads.
  • pre-organized — to form as or into a whole consisting of interdependent or coordinated parts, especially for united action: to organize a committee.
  • preconfigured — to design or adapt to form a specific configuration or for some specific purpose: The planes are being configured to hold more passengers in each row.
  • predesignated — to designate beforehand.
  • prediagnostic — of, relating to, or used in diagnosis.
  • predominating — to be the stronger or leading element or force.
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